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The arrogant years : one girl's search for her lost youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn
- Title
- The arrogant years : one girl's search for her lost youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn / Lucette Lagnado.
- Author
- Lagnado, Lucette.
- Publication
- New York : Ecco, c2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | *PWZ (Lagnado, L.) 11-2158 | Schwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111 |
Details
- Description
- xii, 402 p. : ill., ports.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- An autobiography of Lagnado's early years as an immigrant from Cairo to Brooklyn, reflecting on her own mother's story as she makes her own choices.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-402).
- Contents
- The curse of Alexandra. The secret of the Pasha's wife ; The Alley of the Pretty One ; The bride who set herself on fire ; The bonesetter of Mouski ; The porcelain dolls of Malaka Mazli Street -- Rebuilding the hearth. The legend of Agent Extraordinary ; Passion play on Sixty-seventy Street; The healing powers of iodine ; The errant sister ; The passion of the fast ; The Messiah is a woman ; The tragedy of the navy blue blazer ; The advance of the little porcelain dolls -- Cities of refuge. The shrine on the mountain ; The fall of afterword ; The spring of nevermore ; The Princess of West 116th Street -- The lady in the pink bow. The lost art of penmanship ; The woman against the wall ; An earthquake in Cairo -- The book of lamentations. The verse of consolation -- Inside the Pasha's library.
- Call Number
- *PWZ (Lagnado, L.) 11-2158
- ISBN
- 9780061803673
- 0061803677
- LCCN
- 2011275403
- OCLC
- 703205835
- Author
- Lagnado, Lucette.
- Title
- The arrogant years : one girl's search for her lost youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn / Lucette Lagnado.
- Imprint
- New York : Ecco, c2011.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-402).
- Research Call Number
- *PWZ (Lagnado, L.) 11-2158